Chalana, a graduate of BITS Pilani, had co-founded another education forms company — getmyform.in — which did not take off.Varuni Khosla | ET Bureau | January 19, 2016, 08:10 IST

Chalana, a graduate of BITS Pilani, had co-founded another education forms company - getmyform.in - which did not take off.Education search engine Collegedunia has secured Rs 3 crore in pre-Series A round of funding from Umang Kumar, co-founder and CEO of Gaadi.com.

The website, which collates information on higher education in India and abroad, had raised Rs 1 crore in angel funding last year from Kumar and other undisclosed investors. Following the pre-Series A round, the Delhi-based company is preparing to raise close to Rs 33 crore ($5 million), its founder, Sahil Chalana, told ET.

"We currently get about 30,000 unique visitors a day and we'd like to scale that up to 70,000 in the coming months before we go into our next round of investments," Chalana said.

The website counts NIIT Group, Educomp Business Schools, NMIMS, Alliance Business School and IDP Golbal among clients. The company has about 75 employees, a majority of whom are into content generation and data research.

Chalana, a graduate of BITS Pilani, had co-founded another education forms company — getmyform.in — which did not take off.

In the last few years, several private equity and venture capital funds have invested in the online edu-tech startup space. This year, entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala floated an online education venture, U Education, and invested about $16 million in it. Last year, another venture, Bangalore-based iNurture Education, raised Rs 30 crore from Bertelsmann India Investments.

The Indian higher education sector has undergone massive expansion to become the largest in the world, enrolling over 70 million students, according to a report by EY. Three-quarters of the enrollment happens in private colleges, which generally spend about a fifth of their budget on marketing.